I am licensed in California and Texas with 7 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, & depression. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. Taking the first step to seeking a more fulfilling and happier life takes courage. I am here to support you in that process.
My approach
My therapeutic approach is holistic employing Evidence Base intervention. Respecting your voice as the poet of your life experiences and the expert in sharing your story. Client centered therapy focuses on individual, family, and couples’ unique needs. I too seek support at times. Asking for professional help is a direct statement of self-awareness. Assisting clients in discovering interpersonal strengths to mitigate and work through life changes one engagement at a time. As your therapist, guiding and assisting you in forming balance in work, family, and life is essentially.
My focus
Addiction · Anger Management · Behavioral Issues · Career Counseling · Codependency · Coping Skills · Cultural Stress · Depression · Dual Diagnosis · Emotional Disturbance · Family Conflict · Grief · Impulse Control Disorders · Infertility · Infidelity · Job Stress · Life Coaching · Life Transitions · Men's Issues · Parenting · Racial Identity · Racial Trauma · Relapse Prevention · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Self-Harming · Sexual Abuse · Sexual Orientation · Stress · Substance Use · Suicidal Ideation · Thought Disorders · Trauma and PTSD · Women's Issues · Older Adults · Marital/Pre-marital
My communication style
Making space for clients to process and connect is fundamental in developing therapist client relationship. Assisting clients in identifying their unique strengths within life’s domains to create awareness of joy, worries, triggers, reaction, stressors and more so outlet and hope.
My journey to mental healthcare
I was raised in a big family with 5 siblings. My grandmothers had a significant influence on my upbringing. She utilized her community in establishing soulful open communication in support the entire community. More so I learned that support is all ways a need and the response/delivery of that should by open. My parents was always present. However, I had a unwordable relationship with my Grandmother. Utilizing non-judgmental and sensitivity to client’s culture and beliefs. I specialize in therapeutic remodeling of disruptive family dynamics, anger, anxiety, depression, and generational meshing while fostering self-determination and self-worth. I apricate the clients that allowed me to develop my skills in my journey to becoming the therapist over 7 years. I continue to learn in this ever change to deliver client center therapy one client at a time.
My goals for you
Utilizing non-judgmental and sensitivity to client’s culture and beliefs. I specialize in therapeutic remodeling of disruptive family dynamics, anger, anxiety, depression, and generational meshing while fostering self-determination and self-worth. Goal setting is a collaborative and client leading process.
My first session with you
This the beginning of client provider relationship. It where the client introduce and I will share by back ground and answer any questions the client have. It is an opportunity for the client and I to established How, When, and What the helping/therapy will be moving forward. I also share with clients this is about the client educating me on their life.